2016 Horoscope Leo - Major Trends in 2016

Royalty understandably likes to asociate itself with the Lion and its fierce, noble reputation. Your sign, however, is about more than proudly looking down on lesser mortals (though Leo can do that too), it is ultimately concerned with the exaltation of the self, with the idea that everyone can be their own king and queen. It follows that Leos aren’t averse to a spot of self-display and drama. In 2016 your chances to shine come fitfully.

Most of 2013 was plain sailing. The long-term planets were either kind to you or leaving you alone. You had abundant energy, especially when compared to past years, and so overall success and the attainment of your goals was more likely. Towards the end of the year, in October, Saturn moved into a stressful alignment with you. This created more resistance to your will and goals, but not enough to thwart them. Saturn slowed you down a bit, but success should have still happened. This trend continues in the year ahead. Health is basically good, but needs a bit more watching this year.

Uranus, your love planet, has been in Aries for three years now. He makes harmonious aspects with your Sun and for the first half of 2013 was making nice aspects with Jupiter. So the love life was good. This trend also continues for the first half of 2016.

Jupiter moved through your 10th house of career in 2011 and 2012. This brought much career success to you in the form of honour, elevation, pay rises, promotions and recognition. In June 2013 Jupiter moved into your 12th house of spirituality and is there for the first half of 2016. So during the first half of the year your growth is spiritual and internal. Many powerful things are happening – secret things, sacred things – but they are not overt. Those of you already on a spiritual path will deepen your practice. There will be many spiritual breakthroughs during that period. This is a period of internal growth that will usher in a two-year prosperity cycle.

Saturn is in your 4th house of home and family and he can have a restricting influence on this area. If there are delays in getting work done in the home or if you find yourself having to take on heavy commitments relating to the family, Saturn is the planet that’s responsible for this.

As the year ends you will have some serious decisions to make and these could cause a few alterations to your lifestyle. There will be people you know you can confide in and they will be extremely useful in helping you solve your personal problems. The sex life and sexual practices are becoming more refined and spiritualized. This trend began last year and will continue for many more years.

Applause. Recognition. They say it’s what you live for, what you crave, that it’s your reason for being. While it’s true that Leos can excel in any profession they enter, not every Leo hungers for the limelight. Some work tirelessly behind the scenes, drawing their satisfaction from the way they change other people’s lives through their work for a particular cause or belief. During Pluto’s transit of Capricorn, you will discover new depths in your daily work, new ways of tackling old issues and challenges, and nothing will be business as usual. You will be called upon to make your ideas and actions tangible, solid, grounded, practical. When others ask you to explain what you mean, you’ll have to spell it out, a challenge for someone who often explains on the spur of the moment. You won’t be able to get by on just your charm, your flair for drama, your wit and talent. You’ll have to produce what others can sink their teeth into. Pluto in Capricorn, an earth sign. Uh, right? Earth is not your favorite element. Earth suffocates fire, kills it. And yet even for you, Leo, earth serves a purpose. It urges you to decompress, to pay attention to the minutiae of your daily life—grocery store runs, cooking, what you eat and when you eat it, whether you’re getting enough exercise and are taking care of yourself. There could be health issues under this transit—or at least the propensity for such—but it’s mitigated by your awareness of your body. Read Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Body. You will never again feel the same about what causes physical discomfort, illness, or disease. The other possible ramifications of this transit are more subtle and concern your career. In a time of transition, with Pluto forming a beneficial angle to your professional area, it’s possible that you may change careers in midstream. Just when you seem to be on a winning path, you switch. Don’t obsess too much about it. Things are unfolding as they are intended to for your greater enrichment and evolution.

Your most important areas of interest this year are home and family; health and work; sex, personal reinvention, occult interests, death and rebirth, past lives; religion, philosophy, higher education and foreign travel; spirituality (until July 16); the image and personal pleasures (from July 16 onwards).

Your paths of greatest fulfilment are home and family; spirituality (until July 16); the image and personal pleasures (from July 16 onwards).

The prospect of a New Year always stirs excitement. The hope is that the coming year will be a standout year, providing that one special breakthrough we long to see. We don't want a lackluster year, and certainly we don't want anymore challenges. Will 2014 turn out to be better?You will realize you still have much work to do, but the difference is that you can now draw up a plan without feeling like you are operating within a war zone—you won't have to keep sleeping with one eye open or fear that something will come up to blow you far off course.

As we enter 2014, Saturn still will be in Scorpio, and stay until September 17, 2015. During that phase, the topic of sex and reproduction will be under review in the public forum. Taskmaster Saturn teaches us that we need to be responsible and trustworthy, and if we go off the rails in that regard, Saturn pushes us back on track. Saturn always brings up new situations that reflect changes in society that need to be talked about in a slow, thoughtful, deliberate way.

Uranus will continue to be in Aries and encourage imaginative, innovative, entrepreneurial enterprise from now until 2019. Pluto will continue to work on our relationship to money by touring Capricorn until 2026.

In the coming year, Pluto will work closely with Uranus on special projects. Uranus challenges Pluto in "square" on April 21 and December 15, 2014, and this will repeat until March 16, 2015. Uranus rules radical new ideas and the future, as well as democracies and the common man. Pluto rules the plutocrats—big business, big money, government, and the ruling class. Uranus is associated with liberal thinking, and Pluto with conservative thinking. We have already started to see clues of what these two planets would bring us because Pluto and Uranus form their aspect from late June, 2012.

Society defaults to protect the status quo, but the job of Uranus and Pluto is to show up the glaring inequities that need to be discussed, and they demand that this rapidly be done so. The last time these two planets met was over 45 years ago, 1964-1966.